The sensitivity of a flexible form of MC-CDMA to synchronisation errors

Author

Steendam, Heidi ; Moeneclaey, Marc

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun. & Inf. Process., Ghent Univ., Belgium

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2208

Abstract

In this contribution, we propose a variant of the MC-CDMA system that offers more flexibility than the traditional MC-CDMA system. We investigate the sensitivity of this flexible MC-CDMA system to some types of synchronisation errors. This flexible MC-CDMA system is not affected by a constant phase offset or a constant timing offset, as in the proposed flexible MC-CDMA system the carriers inside the rolloff area are not used. Furthermore, the flexible MC-CDMA system is very sensitive to a carrier frequency offset or a clock frequency offset, while the system is less sensitive to carrier phase jitter or timing jitter

Keywords

code division multiple access; jitter; synchronisation; MC-CDMA; carrier frequency offset; carrier phase jitter; clock frequency offset; sensitivity; synchronisation errors; timing jitter; Attenuation; Bandwidth; Clocks; Degradation; Diversity reception; Frequency synchronization; Information processing; Multiaccess communication; Multicarrier code division multiple access; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999. VTC 1999 - Fall. IEEE VTS 50th

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5435-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.1999.797330

Filename

797330